Maybe the Kentucky General Assembly should just put up a big tent on the Capitol lawn and host a revival.

Some legislative meetings are taking on an evangelical tone, this week at the joint Natural Resources and Environment Committee where a few members took exception to the notion that climate change is caused by humans and is a growing threat to the planet.

Rep. Stan Lee, a Lexington Republican, dismissed the notion humans could do anything to help, such as reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants. He said it's up to God.

"To think we can change what He created is shortsighted and foolish," Rep. Lee said. Apparently, creation of coal-fired power plants ranks up there with day, night, the seas, dry ground and living creatures.

Rep. Fitz Steele, a Hazard Democrat, joined the altar call.

"My Grandpa was an old Baptist preacher," he said. "There's been climate change since the beginning of time. Only one man can control it."

It's pretty clear the "one man" Rep. Steele mentioned isn't President Barack Obama, who recently issued a proposal to cut carbon emissions. Nor was it Len Peters, state energy and environment secretary, at the meeting to testify about climate change (which he noted is supported by "overwhelming evidence").

Most confounding were the comments of Rep. Jim Gooch, a Providence Democrat and committee co-chairman, who has made it clear he doesn't believe human activity, such as burning coal, contributes to "so-called climate change."

Couldn't the collective breathing of 7 billion people on Earth be a factor, he asked Mr. Peters, a former chemical engineering professor. The short answer? No.

The legislative climate change deniers continue even as some on the joint Education Committee are working to get creationism, a faith-based belief that God created the world, into public school curriculum along with science-based evolution.

Kentucky already is way behind in many areas. Lawmakers need to accept the science and not turn policy meetings into Sunday go-to-meetings.